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Embracer cut ties with more than 4,500 employees and cancelled 80 projects over the past year (www.gamedeveloper.com)
submitted 4 months ago by nanoUFO@sh.itjust.works to c/games@sh.itjust.works
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[–] Sop@lemmy.blahaj.zone 48 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Is cut ties the new corpo lingo for saying fired??

[–] Fixbeat@lemmy.ml 24 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Good catch. Corporate speak revolves around saying shitty things but spinning them in a positive way.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 12 points 4 months ago

See also, right sizing, or realigning with market trends.

[–] Hemi03@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 4 months ago (3 children)

never sell your studio or game to a publisher. I hope every one understands that this time around.

[–] Guntrigger@sopuli.xyz 14 points 4 months ago

It's not that simple for everyone. Some of the studios that wound down in the last year did so because they couldn't find funding from publishers, due to the general lack of investment. It's not easy to run a games company with no outside investment whatsoever.

[–] sylver_dragon@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

That's easy for us to sit back and say on some internet forum. When a large company exec is sitting in front of you, waving a massive pile of money at you, it's a hell of a lot harder. Especially if your company is struggling or you just really want to focus on making games and leave the business side of things to someone else.

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works -1 points 4 months ago

Yes but, money now!

[–] CrypticCoffee@lemmy.ml 12 points 4 months ago

Embracer extends then extinguishes.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 10 points 4 months ago

"Cut ties with," as if the studios were made independent. You shitcanned them. You fired four and a half thousand people, because of unrelated gambling problems.

[–] Wahots@pawb.social 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Jesus, didn't know they controlled the devs behind DRG. Their newest spinoffs looked very....generic. This probably explains why. :/

Really dislike games companies being listed on the stock market. Seems to corrode them from the inside out.

[–] newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

Really dislike ~~games~~ companies being listed on the stock market. Seems to corrode them from the inside out.

FTFY.

[–] Butterpaderp@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I don't think Embracer had any say on drg's game development. If they did, well they were obviously more focused on buying too many game companies to care much about development.

[–] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Fuck embracer. I'm never getting another good timesplitters

[–] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 months ago

Granted, the leaked footage made it look more like a third person shooter, like fortnight